When you write it doesn’t occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. Howard Nemerov Read Quote
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. Howard Nemerov Read Quote
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It’s one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn’t live without. Howard Nemerov Read Quote
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? Howard Nemerov Read Quote
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early. Howard Nemerov Read Quote
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. Howard Nemerov Read Quote
I think there’s one thing which distinguishes our art – we don’t consider. We don’t think. We write a little verse because it comes to us. Howard Nemerov Read Quote
